Software Engineer - Storage

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

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About the team:

The cloud has become the core infrastructure that engineers use to create the many apps and services people engage with every day. On the ObjectStore team, we don't just use the cloud, we build it! ObjectStore is a distributed hash table that has grown to be used across all of Microsoft including Azure, Office, SharePoint, Bing and more. It is highly performant, running on over one hundred thousand machines distributed around the world supporting sub-millisecond latency request processing. We build all of the components of the service from the ground up including the storage, network communication, orchestrator, data consistency and more. As a result, we get to go deep into core algorithms problems and solve distributed systems problems at massive scale.

We are looking for someone to come and join our core storage team. This team is responsible for creating new features and optimizations for our internal storage data structures. These data structures include popular open-source implementations like RocksDB as well as our own proprietary implementations coming out of Microsoft Research. We are looking for talented engineers capable of writing high performance C++ code that will enable the next wave of innovation for our platform. This is an unique opportunity to join a collaborative team that gets to solve deep fundamental problems that have real impact.

About the Role:

We are looking for a passionate platform developer to join us in building the next generation of storage using in-house and open-source technologies. You will be hands-on in a massively scaled and distributed system. Our developers design, implement, and rollout features with a data-driven and test-driven methodology. Furthermore, they have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and machine learning technologies. We are a flat team, so you will participate in agile scrum, collaborate with people who have different domain expertise, and have opportunities to explore and contribute in a variety of areas.

We are a fast-paced team with product releases every week. If you are self-motivated and want to make a large impact in the cloud serving area, then we are looking forward to meeting you!

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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing a degree) in Computer Science or related technical discipline with proven experience coding with C++.
  • OR equivalent experience.
     

Preferred Qualifications:

• Able to quantitatively evaluate, implement and verify a solution in a distributed environment, using simulation, testing, counters, logging, and other methodologies.
• Experience working on storage data structures like RocksDB or LevelDB; Experience debugging live distributed systems; Experience using or developing NoSQL storage systems.
• A passion for distributed platform development; A focus on detail and being result oriented; A collaborative attitude willing to learn new things.

• Learn to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provide estimations, and escalate delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define feature requirements. Design and implement features in a distributed environment using data to guide and measure success. 
• Learn and apply coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing maintainable and extensible code with guidance. Utilize debugging tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring code quality and reliability. Debug and mitigate incidents in live production environments.
• Support the identification of dependencies and design documentation for product features, learn about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contribute to architectural processes under guidance. Produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts. Collaborate on quality assurance plans, augment test cases, and integrate automation into testing, while understanding the implications of security and compliance in system architecture.
• Contribute to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Participate in live service operations, and support telemetry data integration for system behavior insights, with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety.
• Develop and apply best practices for reliable code building, understand global and local regulations, customer scaling requirements, and support communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs. 
• Look for opportunities to use open-source technologies in our service or to share learnings, services and tools we have created with Microsoft broadly or the open-source community.